[while waiting on a very tardy psychic] So you'd think a psychic would, uh, be on time. You know, like he could foretell if the traffic was going to be bad?
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Oren Peli
Oren Peli (Hebrew: אורן פלאי‎; born January 21, 1970) is an Israeli American film director, producer and screenwriter, known for directing the 2007 film Paranormal Activity. 2Early life Peli was born in Israel. At the age of 19, he relocated to the United States. 2Career Peli began as a computer software programmer, being one of the developers behind Photon Paint, a bitmap graphics program for the Amiga. His first film Paranormal Activity was inspired by Peli moving into his first house alone and without family nearby. Peli would hear creaks and knocks in the night, which laid the groundwork for a film about a family running around with cameras trying to catch what was going on in the house.After the success of Paranormal Activity, Peli worked with James Wan and Leigh Whannell to develop Insidious. Peli also produced and wrote the 2012 horror film, Chernobyl Diaries, based on the Chernobyl disaster and on his story The Diary of Lawson Oxford. The film followed "a group of friends who, while vacationing in Europe, find themselves stranded in the abandoned city of Prypiat, Ukraine only to discover that they are not alone." 3Television In 2012, The River premiered on ABC, a paranormal/action/horror television series about a group of people on a mission to find a missing TV explorer in the Amazon. Peli co-created the show with Michael R. Perry, who co-wrote Paranormal Activity 2. 3Films Peli is writer and director of Area 51, a story about three friends who want to discover the secrets of the fabled Area 5
Micah: Here, kiss the camera. Katie: I'm not going to kiss the camera. I'll kiss you, but I won't kiss the camera.
You cannot run from this—it will follow you. It may lay dormant for years. Something may trigger it to become more active and it may over time reach out to communicate with you.
We can't let it get to us, otherwise the terrorists win.
[referring to the photograph that Micah found in the attic] Katie: Where was it when you found it? Micah: It was over our bed.
Micah: You're screaming like that over a spider? Katie: Well, yeah... did you go run and get the camera first?
I've been doing my research. I'm taking care of this. Nobody comes in my house, fucks with my girlfriend, and gets away with it.
[discussing demons] Basically, they're these malevolent evil spirits that only exist to cause pain and commit evil for their own amusement. It's pretty creepy—I mean, they stalk people for years, like decades, and sometimes they're really intelligent in the way they do things to freak you out.
Micah: Has this shit happened in the daytime before? Katie: It's getting worse.
I said don't mess with that stuff, because it scared me and what do you do? You go out and get the best looking fucking Ouija board I've ever seen and put it in the middle of our living room? Explain that to me.
[Trying to communicate with the entity] What is your quest? What is your favorite color?
Micah: What if we just get this Ouija board and we find out what it wants and then we give it what it wants? Then it's gone. The Psychic: Because what it probably wants is Katie.
I'm pretty sure what we did was illegal in Kentucky and 20 other states. She's a freak!
Katie: You promised me—don't look at me like that!—you promised me you weren't going to mess with that stuff. Micah: No. I promised you I wasn't going to buy a Ouija board. I didn't buy a Ouija board. I borrowed a Ouija board.